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Loving Start Daycare LLC

A licensed child care center in Vidor, Texas 77662

2335 Highway 12, Vidor, Texas 77662. (409) 769-6070.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Nov 5, 2026.

The last 24 months 8 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: Medium High. Every month

Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.

What these words mean5
Inspection (survey)
A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
Deficiency, citation, violation
What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
Texas’s risk levels
Texas gives each child care deficiency a risk level, by how likely it is to harm a child: Low, Medium Low, Medium, Medium High or High. High is its most serious. Source: Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child Care Regulation.
Licence status
Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
Capacity
The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.

What did inspectors find?

8 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 39 child care providers in Orange County had 1.

6 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 20, 2026: no violation found.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

8 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

8 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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2023 Dec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNov

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No visit on record Visited, nothing cited A stronger orange is more serious, on its source’s own levels, read onto four bands: from the least serious it publishes to the most
Source:

Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.

Each deficiency, in Texas’s words

Grouped by visit, newest first, with the risk level Texas gave it, from Low to High.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Aug 18, 2026: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Transportation training

    “One driver and the director did not have transportation training.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(7)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 19, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 19, 2026.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “One child’s file is missing the immunization records.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 21, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 19, 2026.

  • Required Personnel Records - Current Driver’s License

    “The caregiver that drives the van had an expired driver’s license in their file. Note: The caregivers driver’s license is current so a copy was made and it was put in their file.”

    Rule 746.901(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 18, 2026.

May 21, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “In the preschool room an outlet cover was observed to be broken and exposing sharp edges. Note: This was corrected when one of the owners replaced the cover with a new one that was not broken.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 21, 2026.

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “Feeding instructions are not being updated every 30 days.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 29, 2026. Correction verified: May 26, 2026.

Feb 20, 2026: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Requirements for Stacking Wall Cribs - Doors Securely Fastened

    “An infant was observed in the crib with the drop gate not secured. Note: The gate was secured by the director.”

    Rule 746.2413(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 20, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 5, 2026.

  • Requirements for Feeding Infants-Hold through 6-months

    “A 6 month old infant was observed lying on a boppy pillow in their crib with a propped bottle.”

    Rule 746.2419(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 20, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 5, 2026.

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two

    “The Ipad in the infant/toddler room was playing”

    Rule 746.2207(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 20, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 5, 2026.

All 6 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 18, 2026Inspection3 deficiencies cited
May 21, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Mar 5, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 20, 2026Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Nov 24, 2025InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Sep 8, 2026.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 146 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 0 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Who does the caring?

  • Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers. State rules set staff-to-child ratios by age.

Who owns it?

  • Texas’s open data doesn’t list owners.

How is it rated?

  • Texas Rising Star: 4-Star (the highest of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 39 child care providers in Orange County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 1; this one had 8.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 39 in Orange County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Early Learning Child Care Center2
Patrina Rich10
Shining Stars Learning Center1
Mrs Gs Smart Start Learning Center0
Bright Beginnings Learning Center20
Little Pirates Learning Center1
Ania Gabriella LeblancNot given
Early Explorers Learning Academy1
Oak Forest Elementary School1
Seeds of Hope Learning Center4
Faith SuttonNot given
Loving Start Daycare LLC This child care provider8

What the record doesn’t say

  • Texas doesn’t publish whether a complaint was substantiated.
  • Texas rates some paperwork slips as High risk, so read what was actually cited.
  • Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual providers.

Sources

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Source:

This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 2026.

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Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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